Legal Opinion
Slaven v. Great American Insurance
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided March 18, 2015No. 13 C 1370PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
Jeffrey Cole, Magistrate Judge
The question presented by this case is a recurring one in litigation between insurance companies and their insureds: to what extent documents generated in connection with a “coverage review”- — a phrase with an elastic definition — by a lawyer hired by the carrier, are insulated from disclosure in discovery by virtue of the attorney/client privilege or the work-product doctrine. This inquiry, like all inquires involving claims of attorney/client privilege, is fact intensive, In re Grand Jury Proceedings, 220 F.3d 568, 571 (7th…
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